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Perfection itself is imperfection.- Vladimir Horowitz

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenienceare the natural lot of mortals,and there will be no room for discontent,neither for despair.- Ieyasu Tokugawa

It belongs to the imperfection of everything humanthat man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.- Soren Kierkegaard

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches,just like our bodies.What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.- Matthew Fox

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing inembankments and railways and iron bridges and engineeringdevices to oblige them to be ugly.Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.- H. G. Wells

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect.The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet webecome towards the defects of others.- Joseph Addison

On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessityof imperfection coming into the film.- Walter Salles

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection,but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone elseis a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.- Thomas Aquinas

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease,hints at human imperfection.Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.- Ben Okri

Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfectionof today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.- Gustav Heinemann

Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.- Thomas de Quincey

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute,would he? But drama is about imperfection.And we've moved away from the aspirational hero.We got tired of it, it was dull.If I was House's friend, I would hate it.How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road.But we don't always like morally good people,do we?- Hugh Laurie

You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: Itwas not a warning about the place and the method and the time -it was a general warning.And that points out the imperfection,if you would, of our intelligence.- Lee H. Hamilton

Both our senses and our passions are a supply to theimperfection of our nature;thus they show that we are such sort of creatures asto stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.- Joseph Butler

We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believeothers to be imperfect and try to change them.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We come to love not by finding the perfect person,but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.- Angelina Jolie

Happiness lies in accepting everyonein our lives EXACTLY as they are.We cause ourselves untold misery wheneverwe believe others to be imperfect and try to change them.This is the number one rule for a happy relationship.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Being human, we are imperfect. That's why we need each other.To catch each other when we falter.To encourage each other when we lose heart.Some may lead; others may follow; but none of us can go it alone.- Hilary Clinton

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship;it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.- Eustace Budgell

Measures must always, in a progressive society,be held superior to men, who are after all,imperfect instruments, working for their fulfillment.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection.No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.- Herman Hesse

Complete and total perfection will come about onlywhen we feel that our perfection is no perfectionsas long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.- Sri Chinmoy

We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect worlduntil we get to that place beyond.- Kathie Lee Gifford

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions,in order to avoid erring in our own judgment,is but to exchange one danger for another.- Richard Whately

I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model.My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty.All of us are imperfect.- Miley Cyrus

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect,he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them,he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself,he becomes wise.- Alden Nowlan

A principle is the expression of perfection,and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection,we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.- Edward Gibbon

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.- Doug Larson

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality,it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition,it is imperfect and untrue.- Benjamin Haydon

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must becontinually adjusting it to make it work properly seemsto me a god of relatively low order,hardly worthy of any worship.- Martin Gardner

International relationships are preordained to be clumsygestures based on imperfect knowledge.- Rebecca West

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is thehuman condition there is no shame in being wrong,only in failing to correct our mistakes.- George Soros

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past.Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.- Brooks Atkinson

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians,but a school for the education of imperfect ones.- Henry Ward Beecher

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the historybooks will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.- Christine Keeler

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of maneven though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.- Joseph Franklin Rutherford

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault;all of my plays are imperfect,I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.- Edward Albee

There is always a "but" in this imperfect world.- Anne Bronte

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel,the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing,so is liberty the essence of life.Whatever is done without it is imperfect.- Jose Marti

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature,and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it,or at least to lighten it as much as we can.- Philip Stanhope

We will have to give up the hope that,if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children.The connection is imperfect.We will sometimes do wrong.- Judith Viorst

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight,or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.- George Henry Lewes

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstancecan heighten its value as poetry.- John Drinkwater

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth,that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.- John Ruskin

We are all imperfect.We can not expect perfect government.- William Howard Taft

Perfection is immutable.But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.- Owen Feltham

Man is imperfect.The reality he creates is always endangered by man.- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions,many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?- Lewis H. Lapham

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.- Alexander Hamilton

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument,especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes.The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrumentthat is outside of your body.- Stan Getz

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air,that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs,is the point from which fiction begins.- Salman Rushdie

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiersare not closed and the doors are not all shut.- Maxwell Maltz

But that the reasoning from these facts,the drawing from them correct conclusions,is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred fromthe imperfect state in which the Science is now foundafter it has been so long and so intensely studied.- Nassau William Senior

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake,nor through the ocean and the stars,but through the Son of Man,and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.- William Lyon Phelps

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permityourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man,you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.- Joseph Franklin Rutherford

You're just sort of searching for this "thing" andsometimes you get it and sometimes you don't.All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising,at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.- John Abercrombie

By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercisedhis power to bring children into the earth,not only Adam lost everything for himself,but his children were born as sinners,imperfect, and without the right to live.- Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Give me the comma of imperfect striving,thus to find zest in the immediate living.Ever the reaching but never the gaining,ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.- Winston Graham

The law isn't justice.It's a very imperfect mechanism.If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky,justice may show up in the answer.A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.- Raymond Chandler

In justice to human society it may perhaps be saidof almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world,however imperfect, that they have been founded in andcarried on with very considerable wisdom.- Ezra Stiles

We need religion as a guide.We need it because we are imperfect.Our government needs the church, because only thosehumble enough to admit they are sinners can bring todemocracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.- Jeff Miller

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism,He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellectthat in order to predict little parts of it,we need not solve innumerable differential equations,but can use dice with fair success.- Max Born

If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end,this is not to the discredit of science but is ratheran indication of an imperfect ability to use wiselythe gifts placed within our hands.- Polykarp Kusch